Bring Back the Union NFL Referees

What a contrast! President Obama addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday. Both Obama and Mitt Romney spoke to the Clinton Global Initiative gathering.

But all America was talking about was – football!

With professional refs locked out by NFL owners, and amateur refs taking over, this football season has been a disaster so far. But Monday night’s call in the Seahawks/Packers game was the last straw.

There’s no doubt the refs got it wrong. The video doesn’t lie. It was a Packers player, not a Seahawk, who caught that pass. That call was made by a rent-a-ref who’d never before worked anything higher than a junior college game. Yet the NFL backed him up – and awarded the Seahawks a victory.

Enough already! The greedy NFL owners are determined to destroy the game of football rather than pay professional refs a decent wage with good benefits.

You know it’s bad when even anti-union Scott Walker and Paul Ryan joined President Obama yesterday in begging owners to bring back experienced, union refs.

Walker and Ryan have finally learned an important lesson: scabs can never do the job a union worker can do.

That’s my parting shot for today.

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